RE: Time to give thanks to the Living God

There is time for everything...Time to start, time to end. Time to build time to tear down that which has been built. Time to weep and time to laugh. There is also time to recount all our blessings and then time to give thanks. Trust me guys this is not the time to complain at all. Certainly not.

We all have the privilege of counting all our blessings and naming them one by one and giving thanks to the living God if at this point in time we are yet alive. Why do I say this, simple. I say this because not everyone that started 2016 on the 1st day of January is yet alive as we speak today. Some are dead, some are alive but dead, some have lost their minds and some have lost a limb or two so if you are still together and able to read this whole article all by yourself then you and I certainly need to rejoice, shout out loud and give thanks.

The truth is that only the living God deserves our thanks for He alone is the only one that has the capacity to power our lives.  We have been kept not because we are smarter, hotter or better, we have been kept only because we enjoyed the grace and the mercies of the living God.

As you read this I want you to stop at this point, grab a pen and a journal or a sheet of paper and write out all of God's blessings in your life since January till now, I am sure that at some point you will be tired writing because of the absolute faithfulness, kindness, goodness and greatness of God in all our lives.

I know that not all our prayers were answered in the course of this great and fabulous year and I know we have some unanswered questions and we have some problems that have just plain refused to go away but the truth of the matter is that our blessings outnumber our problems all put together.

So let us do ourselves a favour by ensuring that we engage the art and act of daily thanksgiving for the entire duration of the month of December.  We must work very hard not to ever complain, or be offended or bitter towards our Creator, Redeemer, Saviour and King.

We must give thanks generously, constantly, and continually this great and amazing God, who is all knowing, all loving and all caring towards us all.

This is the time to review the year 2016, recount and count our blessings and give thanks to whom all thanks is due, the only true, faithful and only wise God. The Alpha, the Omega, the very beginning and the ultimate ending of all things.  If you have nothing to be thankful for then thank God that you still have the breath of the living God in your nostrils giving you life freely without charging an arm and a leg.  Remember this is not the time for complaining, murmuring or fretting this is the time to give thanks to the living God for every blessing that has come our way since January 1st till 31st December 2016.  Yes give thanks not just for the things God has done but also for what He is yet to do.

Copyright @ VICTORIA PRAISE ABRAHAM. December 3, 2016.